Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Caress with jewelled drops my fair...
There are other arguments, practical and moral, in favor of this plan, too numerous to be given in this article. It seems to me that from whatever standpoint you look at it this arrangement is desirable. It is politic, fair, and just, while the present plan is impolitic, - since it is uncertain of success, - and is eminently unfair and unjust to a large number of students...
...once be seen. The fact that three months is by no means too long a vacation for those who spend the summer abroad may not have any effect upon the minds of the gentlemen of the Corporation; but let them consider that what they propose is not exactly a fair exchange. For granting us the three days we ask, they propose to take from us six days of vacation which we already have; that is, they propose to make us work two days in September for every day of rest they give us in, April. Thus policy and justice both...
...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...
...loving kisses, fair maiden...